Recycled policy on wet wipes shows the government is dodging bigger issues | Analysis by Sky's SkyNewsThomas
There's a bit of a whiff about the government's plan to clean up our rivers. The Environment Secretary Therese Coffey says she wants to ban plastic wet wipes, which clog sewers and pollute waterways.And the plan goes back even further, to 2018 when Sky Ocean Rescue was campaigning on single-use plastics.
So why recycle the policy? The consultation in 2021 showed there was overwhelming public support for a ban. So making it a headline issue once again is a good way of distracting from the much harder problems coursing through our rivers.A consultation in 2021 showed there was overwhelming public support for a ban on plastic wet wipes
Figures released last week showed there were more than 300,000 sewage spills in 2022. If it hadn't been a drought year, the number would have been even higher. And there is also the horror of agricultural run-off. That's slurry that's spread on fields, but flows into waterways when it rains. Agricultural pollution results in four times as many rivers failing ecological standards than sewage overflows, according to The Wildlife Trusts.
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